Date:16 April, 2013
Gaurii S Kumaar is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses three key activities: paintings, sculptures, and art mindfulness workshops. Through these creative channels, Kumaar explores the nature of belonging, inviting audiences to reconsider cultural narratives and their personal connections to these themes.
In her contemplative paintings and sculptures, Kumaar offers a tangible connection to Indian heritage and cultural symbolism, investigating rituals, ancestral artifacts, dynamics of hierarchy, entanglement, and control in caste and inheritance disparities. As an art educator, Yoga and breathwork instructor, Kumaar creates and leads Yoga and Art Therapeutic Workshops for organizations such as the Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas; the National Mall in Washington, DC; and the Community Art Meditative Murals project at The Other Art Fair.
Working out of her studio in the Tin District of West Dallas, Kumaar has shown her work at notable venues including the Amarillo Art Museum biennial, Latino Arts Center in Dallas, and the Smithsonian-affiliated Irving Arts Center. In 2025, Kumaar received a Dallas Museum of Art Dozier Travel Grant, was a finalist for the Nasher Sculpture Center Artist Grant, appeared in the juried show New Texas Talent at Craighead Green Gallery, and contributed to the Cultural Affairs Master Plan and arts-based community engagement with the City of Frisco, Texas. Kumaar holds a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Texas, Arlington.